Colon and Rectal
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Early walking and eating improve outcomes for bowel surgery patients
Major finding: A recovery program based on early ambulation and alimentation for patients with bowel surgery decreased readmission from 14% to 12...
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Alvimopan reduces ileus, cuts hospital time in bowel surgery
Major finding: Compared with placebo, alvimopan given before and after elective bowel surgery reduced the length of stay by 1 day and...
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Surgeons as proficient as gastroenterologists at colonoscopy
Major finding: Gastroenterologists and surgeons both completed an average of 94% of colonoscopies they performed during a 1-year audit period....
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Selective screening missed 13% of Lynch syndrome–associated colorectal cancers
Major finding: Left-sided tumors with high microsatellite instability (n = 12; 57%) were more likely to be Lynch syndrome–related than were right-...
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Dual therapy cuts hospitalizations, surgery in IBD
Major finding: For patients with inflammatory bowel disease, dual therapy with infliximab and an immunomodulator was associated with a 50%...
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Incisional negative pressure cuts infection risk after colorectal surgery
Major finding: Compared with patients managed with usual wound care, patients managed with incisional negative-pressure wound therapy were 68%...
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'Clinical equipoise' seen for surgical approaches to early rectal cancer
Major finding: Compared with radical resection, local resection was associated with a lower risk of perioperative mortality (rate ratio, 0.31),...
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Less may be more in postop colorectal cancer follow-up
Major finding: The risk of recurrence after surgical treatment with curative intent was about three times higher with intensive carcinoembryonic...
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Benefits of laparoscopic over open colectomy decrease with operative time
Major Finding: The rates of complications and death postoperatively were lower with the laparoscopic approach if the operation lasted 3 hours or...
Conference Coverage
Risk-based strategy bests drug therapy after Crohn's surgery
Major finding: 49% vs. 67% 18-month recurrence rates for risk-based vs. standard drug therapy.Data source: Data from 174 adults in the randomized...
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Mechanical bowel prep may up cancer-specific survival after CRC resection
Major finding: Patients who had mechanical bowel preparation before surgery had a higher actuarial 5-year rate of cancer-specific survival (90% vs...